How to Collect for the Sega Dreamcast - Retro Bird 

Games played: Crazy Taxi (0:01), Cannon Spike (0:10), Chu Chu Rocket (0:33), Mars Matrix (0:44), Project Justice (3:21)

The dreamcast is still alive and kicking for me!!!!

Picked up a Dreamcast this week and my goodness, it felt like I was Jason Bourne collecting a memory I always wish I had, definitely one of the highlights of retro gaming and collecting.

The beeping upon startup has become an iconic part of the system...along with the loud fan.....and the grinding everytime the laser moves. Some would say it gives the system character. Wish I started collecting earlier with the DC because the prices are climbing fast.

Collecting peripherals is a whole other fun aspect of the Dreamcast. Arcade sticks, wheels, twin Stick controllers, train controllers, dance mats, fishing rods... It never ends!

The Dreamcast supports high res graphics via VGA with an adapter, which you can use with a computer monitor (probably available cheap at your local thrift store) or sometimes an HDTV. If you want something really unique to play, there's Seaman and Typing of the Dead.

There's a lot to like about the Dreamcast, but I think it tends to lean into short, punchy arcade games a little too often for it to feel as substantial as something like the PS2 or Gamecube. I'm a big fan of House of the Dead 2, Space Channel 5, SoulCalibur, Rez, Sega Bass Fishing and Crazy Taxi, but they're quick little games that I'm unlikely to play for more than an hour at a time. Shenmue I & II are the big ones for me though. Even after the HD remaster, I feel like it's the Dreamcast versions that I have to come back to every few years. The increasingly archaic system functionality and brutal QTE failures (the tower in the second game, especially) are really valuable parts of getting myself into the modest, slow living of its setting.

Best console ever, it's a shame DC lifespan was so short, but in a way, that's what makes it so special. Great video.

Love the video!! I remember seeing Power Stone on the Dreamcast for the first time in a Software Etc. store and being jaw dropped by the beautiful visuals. I thought it was a huge leap beyond anything that was currently available (playing my N64 at the time). Maybe still the biggest console advancement ever!

I find your videos very funny and informative. Thanks for all the effort you put into your channel

I think it is a very unique console to collect for. I have the entire US Dreamcast library, as well as 40 other libraries.

I'm over 40 and I absolutely love the Dreamcast😍. I love the controller and the VMU. I also love all the games! 1999 was the best time for gamers IMO.

A retro game store near me was selling a Dreamcast with two controllers and two vmus and a free game of your choice for $150. Sounded like a cool deal, until they told me that they haven't/won't test it and wouldn't allow returns. I told them about the lasers all dying out and still wouldn't budge. It's insane to be a retro game store and not test your games or consoles.

I got a dreamcast late in its life span. but man. it was great at the time . a good solid library of games

never been this early in my life. though, i never played the SDC, i can imagine myself having a blast if i were born during that era. hell, thank GOD i experienced Sonic Adventure on DreamCast because of my cousin! the Mystic Ruines temple is engraved in my memory.

Awesome vid, collecting for the Dreamcast has always been a good time. I picked up my system on 9.9.99 so I've been building a collection from the jump. I think out of the Sega consoles it's the easiest to collect for. Other than a few missed games here and there I generally think my DC library is solid. I have started looking into some imports though but haven't decided on the best way to play them yet. I do try to pick up games I missed if the price isn't too high in addition to the independent DC releases that seem to be everywhere now, games like Bang Bang Busters and Captain Tomaday. It is cool to see the Dreamcast getting the attention it always deserved.

I never owned a Dreamcast (although I am going to be getting one next week for $20 from a former colleague), but I have played it a bunch at my buddies house and in my college dorm. The system was a blast. Loved playing Chu-Chu Rocket and Power Stone alone with the 2K sports games which just blew me away. Can’t wait till I get mine as I’ve already started purchasing some games for it.

I had ONE friend in high school who owned a Dreamcast, he got it at launch and I do remember it being extremely impressive at the time

Typing of the dead, Ecco the dolphin, and MDK 2 were some of my favorites. Dreamcast was my first Sega console and the one I loved the most. The controller is really not that weird, especially if you remember what it was like to TRY controllers other than the now defacto Xbox 360 controller setup.

Love it, keep up the good work!

One of the coolest things about owning a DC is there are still home brew games being made for it every year.

I had a Dreamcast back when it came out. There are a few games I loved and still play even today, like Power Stone and Dynamite Cop. Skip ahead to 2018 time frame and I am deployed. When people left they would leave behind stuff in a common area. I found a sports edition Dreamcast one day and it got me into collecting for the Dreamcast. Getting to the question I like to have real versions of the games, thought I would get some one having a library of burnt games.

This one has a special place in my heart, as it was the first one that brought the arcade home, completely intact. It is also the first console I ever got a full set for (completed it little over a decade ago now). By now I have sold off most of it aigain and kept only what I like, due to space issues but I’ve done this with every console I own so…it has an insane library of games: small but insane and all over the place. I feel the same as you: when I don’t know what to play, I pop in a Dreamcast game and have that instant smile on my face, there’s spmething very special about its colours and feel of the games.

My best friend and I at the time were both PS1'ers. I loved the Genesis back in the day but was soured by Sega with the CD, 32x, Saturn... so i was very skeptical with the Dreamcast. My friend was more kind and got one on release. He sold it to me 8 months later with a stack of games for like $100 or 150 or something. I played it for another 8 months before putting it in the closet wherein it still remains 22 years later. So yeah, that's how I "like" and "collect" the Dreamcast, haha. I will say though that sometime in 2006-7 I picked up the black Sega Sports console for $15 at a church sale. So I have that too. I will say though that it did have some neat games. Sonic Adventure is the Mario 64 of Sonic games and is simply brilliant. Of course Crazy Taxi, Power Stone and the load of arcade games (some of the last arcade games, a swan song at the end of an era). I'm glad it's easy to play games on it without buying them, it's a fun console even if I dont want to ever commit to it. There's a cheap adapter that lets you play games off an SD card without modification

I only had one friend who got a Dreamcast. I remember us playing some Power Stone, Seaman and Soul Caliber, but once PS2 and Xbox hit the scene, his Dreamcast pretty much disappeared. That's basically the entirety of my personal experience with the system...Power Stone and Soul Caliber were fun, though!

I got my console in 2017 and bought games, then learned about burning games. This year I was finally able to mod my spare console with a GDEMU so now I have access to the whole library via SD card. Great console and fantastic games.

Even though the Dreamcast had a short lifespan for an average video game console, it still was such a great system with a host of really fun games! Many years after the Dreamcast had been off the market, I was living with some college friends in an apartment. One of our favorite consoles of choice? The Dreamcast oddly enough! We actually shared the Dreamcast in our living room, so each of us would sometimes pick up Dreamcast games cheap and share them. There was a local game store that would sell preowned Dreamcast games dirt cheap as they were trying to make more inventory room for the more popular PS2, GameCube and XBox. We built up quite the collection of around 40+ Dreamcast games! Soul Calibur and Power Stone were two of our favorites!

i remember when i brought my dreamcast in february of 2000 because it was the first console i payed for with my own money so was a very big thing for me at the time. the dreamcast was a party console when i got my second controller i brought power stone and marvel vs capcom i played those with my friends, my girlfriend, my older brother and one of his friends for like 8 or 9 hours on friday. it was just fucking fun dude definitely one best memories with dreamcast. i collect for it when and where i can original game and hardware only so no ports or emulation for me.

I just got a dreamcast, so im pretty excited to start collecting for it

My father's FD had a dreamcast and I always loved the unique nature of it as a kid. Definitely wanna get one!

I had one as a child, im 29 now and im buying a dreamcast next week to revive this experience, great video to watch Just before buying It

Like I said, right now I’m focusing more on building up my library of games for the consoles that I already own, especially RPGs, action RPGs, platformers, and action platformers.

You uploaded this just a few hours after I ordered a second light gun for my Dreamcast! Seems like I picked a good week to hook mine back up.

Emulators on the Dreamcast are what brought me back to it a few years after it died. Being able to play lots of games from prior formats on a TV was far more appealing than using a PC. I hadn't really bothered with emulators before that. As for the Dreamcast game library, it's brilliant and full of high quality games that are still fun now. Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi and MSR are still favourites to go back to.

This was an enjoyable video. I uploaded a video tutorial yesterday on how to upscale Dreamcast internal resolution to 4k. Breathes new life into some of those classics.

I've just recently purchased my first dreamcast, and each time I fire it up in can't help being impressed with the graphics and textures, I love the controller, I think it's great (also love the n64 too!) the vmu's are cool and I'm just discovering the games. I'm a big sega and Nintendo fan (retro consoles) and can't believe I've ignored the dreamcast up to this point - the upside is, I now get to experience it's greatness for the first time, and I'm loving it! 👍

My console’s GDROM drive died so I replaced it with the GDEMU. Since I can no longer play disc games, I only purchase games If they are significantly below the market price because I appreciate a good deal. For the most part, I’m more focused on perfecting the hardware and accessory setup for the Dreamcast rather than getting more games. I’m always on the lookout for official 4x memory cards or the keyboard and mouse. I recently got a cable that will do 480p over SCART (and I use a scart to component transcoder) so I can play games in 480p on my hdcrt tv. That was a huge game changer.

glad to see the dramcast some love. I recently got a transparent case for the dc and although i love it, i sometimes miss the all white one

The Dreamcast was my first console ever & it was thanks to my Grandma who worked at Sega in the early 2000’s who got it for my brother before I was born. We had a lot of great games & accessories, including the fishing rod & the keyboard. The Dreamcast is something that’ll always hold a special place in my heart & I’ve been playing it more often with Sonic adventure 1 in recent weeks. I remember having to replace the whole GD rom assembly rather than the full laser because of bad storage we got our Dreamcast exposed to for almost 4 years which wasn’t great, but since then I cleaned the inside & even got a beautiful golden replacement shell. I also recently ordered some component cables for it & may order a scart cable for it, but $50 for cables is kinda silly, even compared to the $30 I spent on scart cables for my Genesis tower of power. Despite the hurtles I have to overcome, I’m still happy with it & hoping I can keep my Dreamcast alive for years to come.

The dreamcast has always had a big part of my hart happy I got the games I have when I did but wish I would have focused more on it super sweet video keep flying bird 🐦

You should do a video about all the games that got ports and sequels on the original XBOX, causing some people to view it as a spiritual successor to the Dreamcast.

I got my first Dreamcast in 2019 when my daughter was born, ironically she loves Sega as a whole now. I have a Japanese console with a few games. (I only own Sonic Adventure 2, Soul Calibur, and Marvel vs. Capcom 2) It's in great condition and I even have the Sonic Adventure 2 10th Anniversary boxset. Importing is great, but there are games more English-friendly that I'd like to play as time has gone on. Thinking about getting a second one, and then it's on like Altered Beast lol.

We had a Scavenger Hunt a few years back & on the list was a DreamCast & one of my buddies had it. After the game was over & I was trying to return it he just let me have it. I opened it up and inside was Crazy Taxi!! One of my best days ever!

I walked into a Housing Works a few weeks ago and scored a huge collection of N64 and Dreamcast games. The Dreamcast stuff was fire. Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Seaman, GTA2, Crazy Taxi, Legacy of Kain Soul Reaver, Soul Calibur, Hydro Thunder, Jet Grind Radio and Skies of Arcadia. I'm ecstatic!

Dreamcast and F355 Challenge in late 2000 is my single best gaming moment and memory. I lived that, played the online races every day, learned the courses and how to be quick without assists by watching the jaoanese replays you could download from the website directly to the VMU. That was miles ahead of the driving experience Gran Turismo and its 1000s of cars could give me.

I'm very excited to start collecting for the Dreamcast once I get to it. I think it's one of the most unique consoles with a very unique library games, RIP

I remember back in the day I had marvel vs capcom 2 on Dreamcast and me and friends in my neighborhood would have tournaments because I had two arcade sticks and the rule was if you lost the fight pass your controller to the next person. Good console very ahead of it’s time

The Dreamcast games blew my mind back in the days. I really though Sega could take the lead in the console businesses or at least have the same success as Sony, but with the PS2 launch all my hope disappeared. Many Dreamcast games aged well for me and are still fun to play in 2023.

Just got my dreamcast and made my list of games to collect for. One thing I can say is its going to be expensive to get moat of the games I want. But with enough patience and time, I hope to check each game off.

Picked a Dreamcast up in the early 2000's dirt cheap. Games were pretty low cost, too. Used it as a trade in to get a PS2; loved that console, but it is a regret to this day that I didn't keep Sega's last offering. I can emulate with the likes of Flycast and ReDream, but it is not the same as the real thing.

I owned 3 Dreamcasts and had a ton of great games. Loved the heck out of virtual tennis. We used to host tournaments with friends over.

Dreamcast is the reason I opened an ebay account back in 06' I'll never forget that, my first games were Power Stone, Rival Schools, and Shenmue.

I still have a stack of blank Dreamcast BIOS chips for performing the region free mod from when I had my shop. Good times and good memories!

My 3rd favorite home console of all-time. I own a Japanese model I got for peanuts from a person downsizing. I only want the 60 or so games I want to really play. 40 of those games are arcade ports. Some of the Japanese region games are generally cheaper, save for my favorite genre (Shootemups) and some exceptions. No region is really "cheap". So my collection has mostly arcade ports, Sega originals and a fair chunk of Triple A quality reproductions. For an arcade guy like me, the Dreamcast is a pretty essential machine.

I started collection for the dreamcast just this year and turns out its my favorite console. Cant stop buying games for it. Crazy Taxi 2, Jet Set Radio, Sonic Shuffle, Shenmue,Blue Stinger, Sega Rally 2, ChuChuRocket, MSC, Phantasy Star, Rayman 2, Soulcalibur. Got all of these and I love them all. I really missed out in these games for a long time But with the european DC Games you really have to look where you buy them They are much more sensitive. They have this really unusual case with Breaks pretty fast

I always wait until you say something hilarious and then I hit the like button. This video it was the maracas haha

I do have a decent amount of Dreamcast games, but with laser issues and the cost of some of the next one's I wanted I stopped and modded it with an ODE, so can't use the disks anymore, but I now have every game and no anxiety every time I play the thing. I'll keep the disk games I have though as I also spend time staring at boxes.

Man, I was halfway through and already wanted a follow up video! The DC aside from maybe the 2600, is maybe the most fascinating console. It was the arcade machine, but it wasn't afraid to get weird. Seaman alone puts it in a different category. It was just perfect for it's time. I just watched a retro review of Jonny Mnemonic, and the guy basically said it was limited by it's time, but forward thinking in many ways. That's how I feel about the DC. Plus, it's cheap as hell. I just tried Grandia 2, and I think I'm hooked. The DC is the platypus console.

Still got and still love my Dreamcast. So many great games. Resi evil Code veronica is one of my all time greatest games.

I grew up with a Dreamcast. Still one of my fav consoles to date.

I'm so glad I still have my Dreamcast games from my childhood. Most of my old games were lost due to my mom throwing them out but thankfully the Dreamcast ones survived somehow. Skies of Arcadia and Grandia 2 are still some of my favorite RPGs of all time. I have a ton of nostalgia for Sonic Adventure. That game blew my mind the first time I played it at a Toys R Us. I remember staying up all night playing it during one Summer break and I loved every minute of it. And of course Jet Grind Radio is just amazing- the best game on the system in my opinion.

Dreamcast is in my top 10 consoles of all time. I love that thing.

The first Dreamcast game I ever owned was Power Stone. I really regret getting rid of my Dreamcast.

great video. id have 2 go the ode route with the dreamcast esp. with the laser issue, one of the best consoles of all time imo 🙂

I own two Dreamcast and both are hooked up to my TVs and surprisingly enough I only have a few original games. One of the consoles (which is the console I had since 2000) reads backed up games just fine and the other one is modded with a GDemu. Long live the mighty Dreamcast!

I didn't know about the beeping sound that the memory card made. For Dream Cast the shooters look really awesome along with the fighting games. I don't like the controllers for this.

I've had two Dreamcasts. I never have owned too many games for it, though. I really want to get more games for it, though, because I've always loved the system. It's practically legendary.

Great vid thank you I love my Dreamcast I have a complete UK Pal game collection :-)

Any time I'm considering picking up a Dreamcast and building a library for it, I'm reminded I already own the games I'd want for it on other systems 🤷‍♂️

Been gaming since 1989 and it was the only Sega system I ever owned. Of course I had a full time job in 1999/2000 while I was still in school during the Genesis and Saturn's heyday so I don't know if I ever would have bought those if I was a bit older.

I had my back turned as I watched this video and at 9;45 in like “RIVAL SCHOOLS” and I look and see “PROJECT JUSTICE”

I was holding out for the ps2 and luckily my younger brother got a Dreamcast on launch day. So many great games in such a short time

I had a Dreamcast and a dozen games back in 2000, sold it in 2019, and deeply regretted it back in the summer of 2021. Fast forward today, I have 80 games for it and fell in love with it all over again! It was indeed extremely pricey and after I discovered the incredible modding community, I got another DC with a optical disc drive emulator, a HDMI chip, new fan, new shell, etc. Now I emulate games on original hardware and if I like the game after beating it, I'll buy the physical copy for my collection. :)

I wanted the DreamPi VMU but ended up ordering the Funkey S. Still want a custom VMU one day!

The Dreamcast was the “one that got away” for me as a kid; my parents didn’t want to buy a system that was going to be discontinued so they bought me a slim PSOne instead. When I became an adult, the Dreamcast was the only “retro” console I was interested in collecting for because I wanted one so badly as a kid. I found a video game store going out of business during the recession that sold me a box of five Dreamcasts and their parts for like $50. I sold four of them for like $30 to my friends in college and have been collecting for it ever since. Sure, the prices are a bit steep and the console isn’t well known for my preferred game genre (RPGs), but I like collecting for it anyway because it feels like I’m correcting a mistake from my childhood when I do. By the way, I recently found the black sports model and it’s my current Dreamcast. I had a friend as a kid who had every Sega system from the 90s and he had a black Dreamcast, and I don’t think I’ve ever been more jealous so when I saw one in the wild I scooped it up.

If you want some great underrated physical games that are affordable check out Blue stinger, Psychic force 2012, Silver, Quake 3, Vanishing point, 18 wheeler, Test drive le mans and V rally, Draconus, Sega marine fishing, Star lancer, Ooga booga, Shadow man, MDK 2, and Toy commander just to name a few. Dreamcast is my favorite console 😊 got it on 9/9/99 and 23 years later I almost have a complete NA library (currently missing 2 games) Honestly even the more pricy incredible games I find worth it like the fighting games, sonic titles, exclusives, skies of Arcadia, Illbleed, and sooooo many more I can go on for days about how incredible this system is. It truly was one of a kind.

I would highly recommend a gdemu for not expending ridiculous amounts of money just to play Crazy Taxi. They are a really good alternative.

Cool to see one In my time I only ever seen one person own one. Never played one. Super cool line up of games

The Dreamcast Segas Last Ride I Miss Them 80s And 90s Was All Sega And Nintendo

The Dreamcast gave me my first seizure, seems like yesterday I was waking up on the floor of the Electronic Boutique in the old mall. Such a simpler time 😆

My collection was complete 20 years ago. I tried to mod my first dreamcast and bricked it. I then returned it to the store (sorry Fry's) and tried again. Still got it,still works, still the beatdowns are provided. If I'm ever in a situation where I can only grab one collection, it's my Dreamcast collection.

The Sonic Adventure games and Crazy Taxi are great games! I played a friend’s SEGA Dreamcast back then, so I enjoyed Gamecube ports instead later on. Crazy Taxi has fun music!

I think there's a couple of things that make the Dreamcast such an awesome console to own today... I would argue that when it died, it wasn't only SEGA hardware division that died, but also somehow the era of the "home arcade" as well as arcade games in general here in the west. The Dreamcast was the last Hoorah! for arcade giants like SEGA, Capcom, SNK, Namco, Taito etc. all supporting the console wholeheartedly, giving it a unique library of pickup'n'play arcade fun... Besides this, SEGA just gave everything they could, allowing their studios and game developers to be as creative and unique as they wanted, free from restrictions, resulting in so many creative console games beside the incredible arcade games. For us that loved the creativity, the colorful games, and the arcade fun... It kind of died off after the Dreamcast... To top it off, Dreamcast had excellent video output. Fantastic RGB Scart for CRT TVs (Super stable image. 640x480 was displayed as 640x240 on TVs resulting in a flicker-free image with hardware supersampled AA). It also had VGA for progressive output. Resulting in a crisp image + it had what you can expect from modern hardware accelerated rasterized rendering.

I love my little darling because of jet set radio, the weird games I got like super magnetic neo and pen pen tri icelon. Grandia 2 was amazing on there and time stalkers, Tokyo Extreme Racers was my first car game and Soul Calibur is what made me to collect all 6 of them. The capcom fighting games are awesome on the Dreamcast to

Hey Retro Bird I really enjoy your content and just recently subscribed. Will there be more of these How to collect for Videos? Id love to see how to collect Ps2 or even the PSP would be so cool

I miss what it was like a decade ago when I was frequently able to buy Dreamcast games at Value Village (a.k.a. Savers) thrift stores. I haven't seen any DC games there in several years. I prefer the Sega Dreamcast controller to the PS2 Dual Shock. The trigger buttons on the DC controller are better for racing games than just the shoulder buttons on the PS2 controller. The PS4 Dual Shock controller (I don't have a PS3 or PS5) is better than the PS2 controller and Dreamcast controller but I dunno if I can be arsed to get an adapter just to use it on Dreamcast games. The problem with burning Dreamcast games onto CD-Rs is you often have to cut out the music to fit the game onto a CD-R and that's not a sacrifice I'm usually willing to make.

Nothing feels better than when your finger smashing defeats the final boss and then your Dreamcast starts squeaking all over the place. What a mess.

The Dreamcast controller is serviceable. The analogue triggers are good and the analogue stick was an upgrade from the Sega Saturns analogue controller however the worst thing about it was removing 2 buttons when a lot of fighting games were designed with 6 buttons in mind having 4 face buttons without 2x shoulder or 6 face was a huge step back for games that used it like Street Fighter. It did open the market for 6 button alternative controllers but they also lacked 2 shoulder buttons that the Saturn had that could be used for special moves that required multiple button presses like low + med + hard Zangief spinning lariet as an example

My Dreamcast has some trouble playing some games these days so I almost feel a little weird playing it. I might eventually get one of those terra onion modes which replace the disc drive even though I’m kinda against piracy. I might buy a lot of Japanese games just to rip them onto a sd card on the terra onion, which is totally legal. I always wanted to play the Japanese version of Shenmue 2 as a continuation of Shenmue 1.

I don't really go out of my way to collect DC games anymore. There's only a handful of games I liked playing on the system and I currently have one out of the 5 (Omikron). The ones I would hunt down are Silver, Record of Lodoss War, Jet Grind Radio and Space Channel 5. Almost 2 years ago I picked up a system with 13 DC games. It came with 2 regular controllers, 2 fishing controllers, the controller adapter that you showed first and a few VMUs. Picked all that up for $50. Also had to pick up a Genesis and PS1 game in the deal for an extra $5.

Ehh, in terms of collecting for the Dreamcast, I have to say I'm content mostly playing off burned copies. I have enough of a collection from various other consoles, and prices are getting kind of ridiculous (though admittedly not as ridiculous as some other systems). Recently I'd been collecting original Xbox games, the prices there are quite reasonable (for the moment at least).

The white regular Dreamcast you can easily get it at a retro game store for $125 which is not too bad for just the console the cords one controller and with one vmu included

the dreamcast controller is perfect imo for the NFL series, Soul Calibur, Ready 2 Rumble. And this is what I care for. So heck I love this controller! Nothing better than running with power quarterbacks... tackling the opponent's QB with your defenseman. Just perfect. Even Madden on Playstation 3 doesn't do it as good! Nothing compares, I tell ya!

I like you pointed out adaptors, surprised no third party modern controllers even if no experience with them just pointing out options. Game options were fair not much but brief to the the point I guess. I think the VMU was a great idea won't deny beeping though, something I can't imagine but did turn the Wiimote mic off so I get what you mean.

IIRC the VMU beeps when near a secret figure in Super Magnetic Neo. Basically, magnets meets Crash Bandicoot. Fun but VERY difficult especially towards the end. Stock up on lives!

I love my dreamcast but finding games for it at my normal go to shops is like finding a unicorn

I played one of my favorite games on the DC. Blue Stinger ❤️

This Guy is comedy gold he gets me every time 🤣

I love the Dreamcast, I have a very small collection atm (Jet Set Radio, Sonic Adventure, Space Channel 5, Crazy Taxi and Chu Chu Rocket) but I love every game and I wish I could collect more and play it more ofte

The DC was my favourite console... Far more fun than the murky sequel machine that was the PS2.